JPod Returns to the Screen

When we first screened JPod at SXSW, Wired Magazine took notice …

I Want My Book-based Film Shorts

By Todd Jatras March 12, 2007 | 2:42:03 PMCategories: SXSW07  

Authors could soon begin demanding short video treatments of their latest works of fiction and non-fiction, emulating musicians in the 80’s, who quickly realized they could seriously pump sales by producing mini-films of their hottest singles for the MTV generation. The other night Bookshorts screened a 4-minute HD adaptation of Douglas Coupland’s new novel JPod. The film was slick and more than lived up to Bookshorts’ stated goal: “to advance a new genre of entertainment, making short films, animations and interactive media that capture the spirit of a book in moving images.” JPod and bookshorts’ catalogue of 20 or so  3-to-5 minute adaptations can be viewed on their web site and will be showing at select movie theaters around the country.